Jason Alexander has revealed he "got punched many times" after playing shady attorney Philip Stuckey in the iconic 1990 film Pretty Woman.
The 61-year-old Seinfeld actor said playing the sleazy character made him ''hated'' by women around the world and admits he struggled to walk down the street without women saying "mean things" to him.
Speaking to Robin Bronk on the At Home With The Creative Coalition podcast, he said: ''I was known around the world as the a****** who tried to rape Julia Roberts so women hated me.
''I would walk down the street and women would say mean things to me," he said.
''I got punched many times. I got spit on by one woman. It was a rough year.''
Alexander said the movie's director Garry Marshall almost didn't give him the role because he felt felt he was too ''little'' and ''baby-faced'' to be convincing.
''It was a unique situation because when I got [Pretty Woman], I fully understood that the director did not want me. I was not what Garry Marshall wanted.
''I had auditioned for him, he was very sweet. He basically said, 'you're too young. You're too baby-faced. You're too little.'
''There were other people he tried to get and I don't know why but they couldn't make a deal... I got the part because they couldn't make a deal with the actor they wanted and they were desperate.''
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